How can an affidavit from the US Embassy be used to validate a US marriage license for a Non-O visa application in Thailand?

@Robert **********

You are slightly mixed up on how to get a US marriage certificate 'certified'. You're correct the US embassy here won't stamp them (because marriages in the US are controlled by states not the feds)

BUT

You can fill out that blank affidavit stating the marriage between xxx and yyy in state zzz on date is real and valid and the US consulate WILL notarize that.

Using that you can get an in country 90 day Non-O visa issued based on someone married to a foreigner who legally works here for 2000baht.

In Chiang Mai you need a minimum of 21 days left on your current stamp to apply for that in country visa (as it goes under review for 20 days).

SO as long as your spouse entered on a visa exempt or a tourist visa entry and is either on the 30 day extension from that OR a 60 day covid extension AND has 21 days left on her stamp she can apply for that 90 day Non-O inside the country at the immigration ofice.

The way I said to get the blank affidavit notarized from the US consulate has been done by many many hundreds (perhaps thousands) of 'mericanz who married thais in the US.

Previously I asked for certified replicas and got them from the county court where we were married and the probate judge was who we contacted. This was in S.C. Hope something here helps.

yes, we did it a while ago at the CM US consulate. We just did an affidavit and they stamped/certified that. 50 bucks. You then get it translated into thai and get it approved by the MFA. If you need a thai version of marriage certificate, you take the MFA certified document with a translated US marriage certificate to your local Amphur and they issue you a registered thai marriage certificate called a korror22, 200 baht i think it was. Oddly the US consulate didnt want to see the US certificate, didnt read the affidavit and didn't even ask what it was about. just stamped it up asked me to raise my right hand and swear and hand over the cash.